Improved vegetable-washer



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nient, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vegetable-Washers 5 and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference .being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theflettcrs of reference m'arked thereon. -Y i In the annexed drawings, making part of this speciiication, A represents a tub or bucket, the 'sides-of which are provided with a series of slots or openings, B B. This'tub or bucket is intended to' be placed in any rester: vessclotsuiciently large dimensions, so.' that water will circulate freely around it, and through its' slots, B B; to reachl the potatoes or vegetables which are placed within it.

A square frame isrplaced in the vessel orbucket A, which is composed ofthe bottom slat a, the two side slats b l 5,nnd the top slut d. The bottom and sidc slats are made triangular in shape, or V-shaped, with one angle-facing the centre of the bucket.

-C represents a crank-shaft, which stands, in a vertical postion,'in the centre of the bucket A, and which has 'one bearing in the bottom of the bucket, and oneiin a cross-bar, e, which is secured between standards upon the upper edge of saidbucket. This shaft passes through the square frame above described, and is confined tol it, so that when the shaft revolves, the frame revolves -also.

'The potatoes or vegetables 'tobe washed are placed in the bucket A, and this bucket, as has been stated, is placed in a suitable water-vessel.' `By,revolv`ingthe shaft G, the frame within thebucket is also. revolved,'d

the angularv pieces, a and b b, keep the vegetable-sin [notion-inutil they are thoroughly'cleansed of-'all--dirtr The bottom piece, a, raises the potatoes .so that'they have a risingand falling motion, while the side pieces i 'move them inward, their own gravity taking th'em outward again, and causing them to fall after being, raised.

By these two motions,. caused'by the revolving of the frame in either direction,the potatoes are thoroughly washed.

Having thus fully described myinv'ent'ion, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is-

The combination of the slotted bucket A E with'the revolving frame a b b d, 11s-described, whichan be used in any water-vessel of suitable size, for the'purpmxessp'ecied. y

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand, this 21st day of April, 1868.

U. A. 'WOODBURYX Witnesses: 

